TORONTO, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- For people living in the western areas of Canada, a White Christmas with mild snowing is all the best they have wished for.
However, they were unexpectedly embraced with a "black Christmas," which was accompanied with massive ice and snow storm, and worst of all, a blackout.
As the power supply was cut off in some parts of Canada's biggest city of Toronto as a result of the storm nike air force 1 blanche mid pas cher , families have to live with the power outage.
Adam, who is in his 60s, told Xinhua that he used candles to light up his house and the gas fireplace to keep his family warm to get through the ordeal.
He said that it reminded him of the deadly ice storm in January 1998, but it's still rare to have a Christmas without power.
"It's the first Christmas Eve in the dark in my whole life," Adam said outside his residence in a neighborhood where workers were still trying to bring back power supply.
The Christmas lights, decorated along the street before Christmas, were unlit. Ice-laden trees nike air force 1 blanche pas cher , which were toppled by the storm, were seen from place to place.
The storm, dubbed "the nightmare before Christmas," has wreaked havoc on otherwise one of the most joyous holiday.
It's been three days living in darkness for thousands of people in Toronto, as they continued to patiently wait for a flicker of light to return to their homes.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told reporters that the power outage could last till this weekend for some.
"We'd like to say this will be done tomorrow," Ford said at the city hall Tuesday. "That's not going to happen."
Hydro workers from as far as Michigan and Manitoba have been brought in to help restore power supply as quickly as possible.
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